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Directed by | William Beaudine |
Written by | Elwood Ullman Edward Bernds |
Produced by | Ben Schwalb |
Starring | Leo Gorcey Huntz Hall David Gorcey Bernard Gorcey |
Cinematography | Harry Neumann |
Edited by | John C. Fuller |
Music by | Marlin Skiles |
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Distributed by | Allied Artists Pictures |
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Running time | 65 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Paris Playboys is a 1954 Americancomedy film directed byWilliam Beaudine and starringThe Bowery Boys.[1] The film was released on March 7, 1954, byAllied Artists and is the thirty-third film in the series.
After Sach is mistaken by French professor as the missing Prof. Maurice Gaston LeBeau,[2] they convince him to impersonate the professor in the hopes of driving the real professor out of hiding. Sach and Slip head off to Paris, along with Louie, and proceed with the plan, with everyone there thinking that the professor has amnesia. The real professor finds out about his impostor and returns to Paris, just in time to encounter spies who are trying to steal the professor's rocket fuel formula that he was working on when he disappeared. Sach, however, creates his own rocket formula that saves the day, and he is rewarded for his efforts in the end.
After thirty two films in this series, the opening title screen was changed from "Starring Leo Gorcey and the Bowery Boys" to "Starring Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall and the Bowery Boys" beginning with this film.
In the film,David Gorcey andBennie Bartlett only appear in an early scene at Louie's Sweet Shop, and have no lines of dialogue.
Warner Archives released the film on made-to-orderDVD in the United States as part of"The Bowery Boys, Volume Three" on October 1, 2013.
Preceded by Private Eyes 1953 | 'The Bowery Boys' movies 1946-1958 | Succeeded by |
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